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    a whole. The primary industry of the time was the textiles industry. It had the most employees, output value, and invested capital. It was the first to take on new modern production methods. The transition to machine power drastically increased productivity and efficiency. This extended to iron production and chemical production. It started in Great Britain and soon expanded into Western

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    creation of numerous innovations and inventions which have both improved the community to a certain degree. These inventions have advanced society but in some cases at a cost. The Industrial Revolution saw the rise in manufacturing which had created mass production generating more products and jobs. This had gone hand in hand with urbanization as more and more people had moved to urban areas producing a growing work force. Despite the Industrial Revolution having positive and negative impacts, the positive

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    As the Industrial Revolution took place, many drastic changes… technological, social, economic, and cultural also occurred. The Industrial Age brought about a new order that gave rise to the world of skyscrapers, factories of mass-production, and electronic devices that we are accustomed to today. The everyday lives of ordinary people underwent a dramatic change for the better. Before the Industrial Age, people lived very simple and hardworking lives. Any food or clothing they had was produced by

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    In the time period between the Civil War, and WWI, the United States went through a massive cultural and industrial revolution. This revolution transformed them from a small, new player in the world of global politics, to a major world superpower that could compete with such industrial powerhouses as Britain and Spain. This revolution was driven by one key force, engineering innovation. Engineering allowed industry to become more efficient, but more importantly allowed the U.S. be extend its military

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    as ''The wealth of nations'' by british economist Adam smith who argued greatly in favor of ''the doctrine of laiessez-faire'' helped fuel the revolution in industry and buisness. After innovation in the textile industry allowed the start of mass production, new industries started to gain as much pace and become just as important to the overall growth of

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    The acronym PERSIA denotes the categories Political, Economic, Religion, Social, Intellectual and Aesthetic into an easy way of remembering one of many systematic models. These six categories are used to organize and explain technology’s effect and changes over a long period of time. By categorizing a specific topic or idea, one may easily be able to understand the importance that topic, idea and technology has impacted a person, culture, country, and even history. Thus, providing a new outlook

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    During the early 1800’s the Industrial Revolution in England was seen as an improvement to society. Before the revolution began most products such as clothing, were handmade and mostly done in people’s homes with basic machinery. The revolution gave birth to factories were machines that were able to produce a large amount of goods to be manufactured in a shorter amount of time without human error. Providing a great amount of jobs for people, improvement in the countries transportation, and communication

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    result of not needing much human labor people resorted to cities in search for jobs, thus leading to factories. The factories became center or the “power house” of the industrial revolution. New machinery was introduced allowing cheaper labor and mass production at a lower cost. This new way of creating manufactured goods increased the economy of Britain exponentially. People were very pleased by the increase of Britain’s economy. Britain was also big on coal. Coal made it simpler and cheaper to melt

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    the Industrial Revolution, but they were given little or no pay. Nine in every people went into poverty during the industrial revolution. During this revolution many urban areas were targets of water and air pollution. This was because of mass production in factories and many wastes and chemicals, mostly hydrochloric acid, was not disposed of properly and was deposited into rivers and lakes. The hydrochloric acid contaminated the water that most people drank. This caused many people to die from

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    22. The technological developments during the industrial revolution that enabled people to build factories were trains. 23. The two major inventions that allowed farmers to increase their yield were the Cotton Gin and the Water Frame 24. The mass production of earlier inventions impacted families by granting them the ability to move from one place to another faster. 25. The introduction of automation decreases the value of slaves in the south after the American Revolution. 26. The original cotton

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